Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-20
THE ENCAMPMENT.
COMING TO AN END-EYENGS PAST
AND TO CONE.
General Cosby Replies-I;eceptio
and Visitofs-Serenades and
Driils-Review-R
CAMP SIBERIAN,
SANTA Cruz, August

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SANTA CRUZ, August IS, 1887.
The concert by the First Artillery band
last night at the Pope House is the sSb.
ject of much complimentary comment
The playing was especially fine, and the
programme of selections up to the best
concert standard. For concerts the Artil-
lery band is admitted TO be better than
that OF the First Infantry, and the Infantry
men are, in the main, frank to admit it.
Before the camp breaks up it is probable
that the two bands will unite for an hour
OF concert in one or the other camp.
THE TENT TROUBLE
Concerning the complaint about the
tents, Adjutant General Cosby has written
letter As the REcoRp-UNIos is not
pleased to do any injustice to anyone.
the Generals statement is given in full.
But 1t remains that by some management
that is not easily understood, the States
property was delivered and receipted for
by brigade officers for Camp Bartlett and
have not been returned to the custodian of
the States military property, and by reason
OF this fact the Artillery regiment has
been greatly Inconvenience Half the
Slbley tents here are unfit for use 1t be-
ing impossible to close them, the fog and
heavy dew, almost equal to rain, danpens
the straw and bedding to a degree that rem
ders 1t marvellous that half the men have
not been laid up sick. If the State author
tiles cannot adopt a system of securing the
return of tents when furnished for encamp-
ments, and for repair of those misused, it
is time that business counsel was taken to
devise system for the preservation of
State property. General Cosby declines re-
sponsibility in the following letter:
AnJurANTGESERAL'S OFFICE,
SACRAMENTO, August t. 1857. I
:, BFigaGaeF- Generat Sfoha = Carey, Commanding
Fourth Brigade, NJ G. C.-GENERAL: | see by
this mornings RECoRD-UNIoS that the CORE
Spondent from Santa Cruz is plea ed to say that
great complaint is made, and that the Adjutant-
General severely censured Tor the lack of tents
in camp. For your informationI desire to say
that the quartermaster secured here in all n
Sibley and wall tents and two head-quarter tents.
What proportion OF these tents were wall or 81.
bley could not be told as Mr.. Mclaughlin s. team
ster, without authority, took them to the depot
Every tent that was on hand was sent. some of
ten sent to the Veterans Home, and some four
teen, mostly wall, cannot be found. | sent
some days ago, three or four kilograms TO Mr.
Lillian, urging him TO hunt these up aud ship
them at once, but he has only been able to find
two Sibleys, which were sent down day before
yesterday. As far as l know, no reQuisition was
made for tents until about two days before the
command went down, and if there is any serious
deficiency it should have been known and the
few needed should have been hired as il of
course was doubtful if the missing tents could
be depended upon. II was most certainly the
duty of the brigade and regimental quartermas-
tiers TO attend to these matters, and not mine,
further than TO give them all could get If ali
the tents sent to Camp Bartlett had been re-
turned, there would have been a large surplus
over the number required for the First Regiment
to shelter it at the rate of six men to tent and
the proper number for non-commissioned and
company officers, and do not discern that am
responsible for the loss of the tents not returned
nor for any loss of tents at Santa Cruz Very
respectfully, GEORGE B. COSBY,
Adult ant. General